DRAPER, Utah (CBS Las Vegas) — One Utah school district believes a cougar mascot would be insensitive to women.

The Canyons School District overrode the students top choice of a cougar mascot for their high school that is to be completed in 2013.

Would-be Corner Canyon High School students chose the Cougars as their mascot — a name principal Mary Bailey said carries an ugly connotation that is disrespectful to women.

In popular culture, the cougar is a sexually aggressive middle-aged woman who attracts younger men.

The school board, which consists of six men and one woman, thought the Charger would be more appropriate, which was on the ballot but failed to appeal to students as the cougar had. This is apparently paramount to today’s already-perfect educational system, where debating about the definition of a modern culturally-inclined word surpasses the need for scholarships for high school seniors.

Cougars — the large mountain cats — are popular in Utah. Brigham Young University, considered conservative, uses the cougar for its mascot.

Bailey said Corner Canyon’s close proximity to BYU was another reason to use the Charger.

She said the cougar was popular enough, while the charger gave the school an opportunity to have a unique mascot in Utah.

One more example of Government intervention. An election was provided, the people picked an option (in this case the Students), and a Government board somewhere decided the result picked was not up to their licking so it was over-ridden.

Why did they even offer the “cougar” option if they had no intention of using it?

Chargers have just as many negative meanings as Cougar, if not quite so popular. For that matter, so does the principal’s name, Mary.

Maybe they should have gone with “Corner Canyon Non-Specific Entities of Indeterminate Origin”? Oops. “Non-Specific” would be offensive to Trans-gender folks, and “Indeterminate Origin” could be offensive to orphans or those with single parents. Maybe they could be the “Corner Canyon Diversities” with a Rainbow Logo that won’t offend… er… uh… never mind.

I’m still trying to figure out what actual cougars have ever done to anyone that they should be degraded by being compared to older women interested in younger men. Is this common behaviour among cougars in the animal kingdom? I believe they are owed an apology.

Sad part is that we name teams after something or someone we respect. We try to bask in the “power” of the mascot by naming our team after it. Why would anyone want to call their team something if they mean the name to be “Offensive”. No one ever has to be taught this. Even young kids, middle schoolers and high schoolers get it. It is only pc liberals that have to view everything in terms of offense.

I can see it now, T-shirts, hats, signs with a picture of a cell phone CHARGER as the mascot. I guess not all that is left to do is to have the different cell phone companies bid on if the brand name to be on the CHARGER. Pony up the money AT&T and Verizon. Who will be the highest bidder!

Oh great!! A charger is something prisioners use to hide stuff up where the sun doesn’t shine. Folks can generally find a secondary meaning for a word if they try hard enough. A cougar was a nmountain lion long before it was a sex craxed middle age woman. Maybe Mary Bailey is a cougar and the name struck too close to home.

The mascot name “Charger” has male written all over it. How ironic that this was overlooked by the PC Principal and the PC Board. So, where does that leave the female students? Obviously, without a mascot that represents their interests ….possibly?

This is why our children are out of control, because they are givin a choice to make and when they make the choice they are not allowed to have their choice! It is things like this that make our children loose faith in their country and its officials! If cougar was such an insult to women why was it even allowed on the list to begin with, it should have been removed before the children were allowed to vote on it, but then it wasnt an insult, it was still seen as a mountian lion. The children picked it they should have it! I was labeled a cougar just because I am now a divorced woman over 45yrs old, I dont date younger men, and I cant control who I attract from my looks. I dont take home every man that hits on me either. They need to stop calling us cougars because we are not mountian lions and leave the cougar in the mountains where they belong. These school officials need to do what is right and that is to give the children the winner of their vote, not to void it out! Why even bother getting the children involved to vote if the plan was not to use it anyways, all you school officials are doing is teaching the children not to bother voting because it doesnt make a difference the officials are going to do what they want anyways! Thanks for damaging more of our future voting Americans. Plus the last time I checked we lived in America the home of the free, and not in Russia the home of the controled! Thanks for more damaged children!
Cherrie Bonham

awesome comment, what you said was dead on, dont tell some one they can make a choice then decide there choice is unacceptable thats just plain stupidity. perhaps the kids should vote again and agree on our school system is a joke or just jokers for short.

Rational depression or rational deficit? Either way, the stupidty ceiling thing is funnnny stuff. Just looking at the screen name…are you from a city with a baseball team that won the World Series lately?

You’re telling me there are NO liberals in Utah? Let’s see, you’ve got some PC dingbat, public school employee, with yet another silly, “offfensive” ban. But because it’s in Utah, she must not be a liberal. So she’s just another petty, hand-wringing, self-righteous, know-it-all? Aren’t they the same thing as liberals? And what party would she be a member of then?

There are A LOT of lefties in Utah. The State Legislature may be majority “Republican,” but the Teachers Union figured out long ago they should run their lefty candidates as Republicans. The legislature is FULL of RINOs, and the local school boards are much, much worse.

You don’t know much, do you. Salt Lake City is extremely liberal, politically. Former mayor Rocky Anderson is as liberal as they get. He is running for President, having formed his own political party whose platform consists of indicting George W. Bush for crimes against humanity.

Draper itself is a suddenly booming hive of California transplants who have brought their loopy liberal ideas with them. They fled the cesspool that is California and now spend all their time complaining that Utah isn’t exactly like California.

Utah politics is dominated by so-called “Republicans”, but they are RINOS of the worst sort. Generally socially conservative, but they are Big Government uber-liberals when it comes to taxing, spending, regulating, micromanaging and social engineering. There are very few true conservatives in Utah. That’s why Mitt Romney is so popular here.

Eric, you are generalizing Salt Lake City to mean all of Utah. It is not true.

Outside of Salt Lake, Utah is VERY conservative. They don’t even fluoridate their water unlike the rest of the country.

Oh by the way, Romney is not for high taxes, or micro regulating so where the heck are you getting that from? His healthcare plan was a Heritage Foundation, mostly free market response to Clinton’s own Marxist health care plan that had gained steam shortly prior to that. We have Reagan to thank for the forced treatment of all comers to hospitals, (aka free riders) would you like to revoke that requirement for hospitals?

I can remember when you would say that Political Correctness would destroy intellegence, freedom of of speech, the fabric of our society and more, you were called an idiot because that could never happen. And look at us now…. I guess we all were idiots after all.

Just because the city is mostly republican doesnt mean the school board is! Gee just look at the NEA 99.9% LIEberal but their membership (aka the teachers are probably about 55-60% LIEberal) THUS not an accurate representation! Just look at MOST of America politicians, yes even republicans, are more LIEberal than their constituency. Now just go to a field where its almost required to be a leftist like teaching. See we are basically talking about career politicians NOT the avgjoe, the article even stated the student body voted for cougar as mascot.

Gotta love how conservatives try to mindlessly blame “liberals” for everything. This isn’t a liberal/conservative thing–this is a stupidity thing. Though the school board is more likely conservative for two reasons–

No. I’m a 59-yr old woman and didn’t know that the word cougar was used as a slang term for an older woman going after younger men until last year. This school district is silly for trying to give such credence to slang language. Instead, they should be correcting their students and teaching them to not use slang and encouraging them to understand the meaning of the word cougar as it is shown in the dictionary.

Never heard of a TV show called “Cougartown?” Frat movies show them importing middleaged women for dates because “they know what they’re doing” and appreciate young men better than young women. Instead of Gigilos, the shoe is on the other foot. Older women preying and paying for younger men. Verrrrry popular in schools – male student teachers are the prey for older women in highschools everywhere. Ask a teen who’s doing the Principal and get an earful. Must be some Cougars in that town!

One can only imagine the other idiotic decisions people in this school district have to live with.

Next to go: all sports terms involving the use of the word “ball.” As in footBALL, baseBALL, soccer BALL, tennis BALL; these terms may be offensive to the BALL-less. [not only those with two X-chromosomes on the 23-pair, but also those BALL-less men on the school board who acquiesce in this laughable decision.]

In order to afford an opportunity to provide, in this ‘teachable moment,’ a lesson to all of the students, to wit:
1) We don’t care what you want, think, or say.
2) The language means only what we, the anointed, say it means.
3) A single anointed minority’s right not to be offended trumps the 1st Amendment Rights of everyone else.

My thoughts as well. #2 choice was Diamondbacks, #3 was Falcons, #4 was Raptors. The district is going with Chargers, which has absolutely nothing to do with our community. I would never have thought of cougars as inappropriate.

Good Job posting the #…I hope they do get lots of calls for this nonsense!
LMAO!….Was the “COUGAR” mascot going to be wearing a lil black dress, nylons and sexy high heels or a bikini???
Liberalism IS a mental disorder!!!
2012-SAVE THE REPUBLIC!
ABO=”ANYBODY But (resident-thats NOT a typo!) obama!
GOD BLESS AMERICA! GOD “SAVE” THE REPUBLIC!
p.s. I love “COUGARS!”-lol!

If they were just going to veto the cougar for being “disrespectful to women” (which is a crock), then why have it on the ballot as a choice to begin with? Good grief. These people should move to California where their political correctness will be better tolerated.

I am no longer surprised when I read an article about some stupid position a teacher, administrator, or school board takes. There isn’t a day goes bye I don’t read an article like this. These people are teaching (indoctrinating) our kids for Gods sake! We need to abolish all public school teachers unions and rid our schools of these liberal wack jobs. You never hear this kind of foolishness at parochial schools. They (parochial schools) run on a fraction of the budgets of their public school counterparts and boast higher graduation rates,GPA’s, and college acceptances.

Parochial schools only appear good because of the demographic that attends. When comparing apples to apples, private schools do worse than public schools.
After accounting for socioeconomic status, public schools fare better.

THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE! What a great lesson on democracy for the students. They voted and the school board voted 7 to more than 7 and the board won. Someone who drives a charger should scream they are offended.

Now I ask you my friends, is it any less disrespectful of women to use the name “Charger” which brings to mind a totally irresponsible irrationally driven female with her husband’s credit card in her hand?

Ms. Bailey is obviously a liberal feminist! What an idiot that is so concerned with PC. I’d be interested in how tis school is performing acedimcally under her tuteledge! Is she as concerned about the education the students are receiving as she is about her women’s lib attitude?

Bugs Bunny has a great comment about that, “What a maroon!” It is interesting that the principal immediately thinks of the slang meaning of cougar, while the students are thinking of the largest wild cat in North America.

Mitt Romney’s home state is either Michigan (where he was born and grew up), or Massachusetts (where he has lived for several decades and where he raised his family, was governor, etc.). He has never really resided in Utah. I know, facts is harder…

I think that “Chargers” is offensive to all of us who suffer high amounts of credit card debt and promote financial responsibility. In an age where government keeps raising the debt ceiling, it’s unconscionable that a public school would make such a poor choice of mascots.

Well, you can’t use mountain lion because that’s just another name for Cougar and they’ll see right through that. Can’t use Puma for the same reason, plus it’s insensitive to Adidas wearers. Can’t use Lion because it’s insensitive to politicians (lyin’)

I guess now that animal names have double meaning in wacked out PC leftwing circles the only thing left is imaginary Space Aliens for school mascots.
Can’t you see it?
High School championship game – Jedi vs Klingons, Vulcans vs Daleks, Romulans vs Borg, Predator vs Alien, … whoops, already did that one.

Yeah, charger has no sexual connotation either:
“A small cylindrical object that can be filled with money or drugs and inserted into the anus to conceal their whereabouts from the police/prison guards etc. As described in the classic French book ‘Papillon’.”

It is very obvious that Mary Bailey actually IS a cougar, probably fuc#ing students and does not want to be caught, so her subconscious self made her object to the name of a wild North American cat as a mascot!! Look at yourself in the mirror, dipshi!, and then figure out what your next career should be, because it is NOT teaching children!!

“Would-be Corner Canyon High School students chose the Cougars as their mascot — a name principal Mary Bailey said carries an ugly connotation that is disrespectful to women.”

But seriously though, why would you shield your kids from liberalism rather than just teaching them to question everything and ask themselves how they know something is true or not? Your children will fare better in life if you teach them how to think rather than what to think.

This reminds of the same fuss that happened when the students of Taylorsville high school (in Taylorsville, Ut) chose the “Trojans” as their mascot. The powers that be thought it would be offensive and changed it to “Warriors”.

That was back in the early 80’s. This kind of idiocy has been around for a while. Same argument then, if you were going to decide for them, why give the kids a choice?

Ya’ll are missing the big picture. Someone needs to raise the issue that it is just plain wrong to even have a “mascot”. That is akin to slavery. Has the MASCOT agreed to being a mascot? Does the mascot get paid for its use? DOWN WITH MASCOTS!!

If women are going to be offended by hearing the word “cougar”.. maybe they shouldn’t be acting like the women who earned the label. That would take care of it.. sheesh. The ridiculousness of the politically correct crowd has gotten out of hand, because we’ve let them censor our language since they started whining about it. F them and the cougar they rode in on!

the part that bothers me is that the students voted and then the results of the vote were overturned. Extrapolate this and imagine if Obama loses re-election, but then SCOTUS/Congress overturns b/c the voters are racist and awards term to Obama. Basically the same thing.

This is beyond ridiculous!! The sports teams of the flagship university of Utah, Brigham Young University are called..guess what…THE COUGARS! My own University of Houston are the Cougars as well. Where do they dredge up these idiots??

When I was in high school, there was a full-time principal, and a secretary. That was the total administration. Period. Is the purpose of today’s schools’ top-heavy administration to give admiistrators time to take on life-and-death controversies like Cougars/Chargers? Maybe these idiots would like to move to Hoopeston, Illinois and take on their school’s nickname, the “Cornjerkers”.

So…cougar is offensive because while they ment an animal, it could be construed as meaning a natural process of human nature related to sexuality..but Charger is okay…which actually is MENT to mean a type of WAR HORSE and as we all know.. war is a clean/safe action that hasnt lead to the deaths of tens of millions of humans. Might I add those evil Christians Mary (that I know you just HATE!) used Charger horses to run down thousands of innocent Muslims during the crusades… two can play at this PC game Mary.

The Crusades began in 11th Century after 4 centuries of Jihad violence against Christians. The first clue that the “innocent Muslims” may have been getting some payback is that we number years so that scholars may reference prior historical events in sequence to later ones.

Draper, Utah goes from “point of the mountain” between Salt Lake and Prove to down in the gutter. The adults, including the Mormons, on the school board need to get their collective heads out of the gutter. They also need to respect the vote of the students and not simply dictate to them as if the students’ vote did not count.

charger 42 up, 26 down
A small cylindrical object that can be filled with money or drugs and inserted into the anus to conceal their whereabouts from the police/prison guards etc. As described in the classic French book ”Papillon”.
”I tried to smuggle that chocolate out of jail but the guards found my charger”

“Brigham Young University, considered conservative” – Here’s a perfect example of your leftist media. What relevence does that statement have to this story? Does the author make the statement “Mary Bailey, liberal school principal”? No, they never do THAT. Only conservatives are pointed out as if they were something unusual and thus, something to be dismissed or feared.

So, she is offended that the students chose a fierce animal as their mascot? Her mind was obviously in the gutter (not the students). Well, so much for equality for women. How many guys out there would be offended had they chosen “Stalllions” (look it up)? Even if you think that word is offensive, you’re not going to cry like a baby because you think someone is being mean. Seriously! We will never survive as a people or as a nation until people stop being so darned offended at every teensy little thing! I suppose she would be offended if I told her to…Man up?

Mary Bailey must have been turned down when she went after that 18 year old kid in that downtown bar…what she failed to realize…was that it was a gay bar! mary! How does it feel to be rejected by a gay guy? I’ll just take it out on my students when I sober up!!!

So it’s better to be a credit card abuser than a chaser of younger men? Or is it demeaning to those working poor in China’s battery factories? I mean, applying the same kind of idiocy as the school district has employed….

First and foremost, a cougar is a large cat… never mind what way the term is used on occasion. The reaction of this principal tells us a lot more about her than about the definition of a word. I would never have thought about her defination on my own and neither would 98% of people. And, it’s the 2% who immediately think of the obscure and alternate meaning that we should worry about.

We have become a society of sissies who are so easily offended that it is sickening. We can’t be cougars because it offends women, but the choice of the mascot has not one thing to do with women. We can’t be Indians because it offends the Indians even though being named a mascot is a compliment! It’s gotten ridiculous. The America we know today would never have had the courage and conviction to win our independence. We’d be too concerned about offending the King of England. It’s embarrassing to see what weaklings many Americans have become in the past 30 years. And the Islamic world smells blood in the water, and America is asleep at the switch and showing itself weak – militarily, defensively, financially, morally and politically.

For those unfamiliar with Draper, Utah: It was, until recently, a quiet, rural corner of the Sale Lake valley. Over the past 20 years it has become infested with a huge influx of dimwitted Californians who have brought their soft-headed nonsense with them. They’re generally politically conservative California Mormons who have fled the collapsing CA economy, but they are brainwashed from a lifetime of contact with the Land of Fruits and Nuts.

They just created an “issue” that would interfere with the less favored name among the adults. The kids chose Cougars but the adults preferred Chargers. Btw, cougars are not offended by the term and the kids are not tuned in to your reasoning. Why even give the kids a choice if they aren’t allowed to utilize it?

Let’s see, a Charger could mean someone who attacks or it could describe the horse that a knight would ride or then it could be a term used to describe someone who is purchasing something on credit. Ahhh, now it makes sense! A Charger is someone who spends money he doesn’t have. This is a round-about way of naming the school after Obama!

Will the liberal stupidity never end? No! As long as we have liberals in charge we are going to bet this type of stupidity! Schools and politics seem to have a top heavy number of stupid liberals. Lets get rid of them. All of them.

What is a Charger anyway? Nothing. A meaningless name, in actuality a verb, that doesn’t present uniiqueness so much as it projects nothingness. A Cougar on the other hand is a magificent animal to which real people admire, desire to emulate it’s prowess and tenacious manner. Poeple have always gravitated to real animate creatures as msacots and a cougar is one of the finest examples.

What a disrespect to those students. It’s not like they selected the Playboy bunny mascot (even it that could have been cool).

On second thought, Charger is a good mascot for this high school as it’s a meaninless verb, not rooted in any admirable set of qualities like a Cougar represents. Yes, Charger is good because nothing is what these students will be getting from their HS programming. Go Chargers Go! (That was mean, cuz actually I pray for our dumbed down youth).

Poopular culture is a disease. Obviously, the only people…no wait, I cannot lump them in the same class as me…automatons who would confuse an animal with some poopular culture slang deserve to locked in padded rooms.

I really think nuclear war is our best option. Most of the mediots live in large cities and would be fried. Their acolytes in the outskirts and countryside would provide a food source for the animals which provide us food.

If they thought it objectionable, why was it allowed to be on the ballot?
If they were afraid their choice wouldn’t be chosen, why did they allow a vote?
Could the students pull an F-U, and say they’ll compromise on Pumas instead?
Could somebody flush, while these board members’ and the principal’s collective heads are still in the toilet?

A cougar is a woman who over-estimated the staying power of her beauty…the result is that she is busy wasting her time chasing after younger (uglier) men in a vain attempt to capture the magic of her youth.

I wonder how many students will think that these people are extremely large anuses ? Also wouldn’t the best solution be for the students to have a fund raiser to hire a sexually agressive middle aged woman to be the school’s mascot ??

Just another reason to get your children out of the government mind control centers that are run by degenerates. Degenerates that are paid with your wealth, extracted through taxation, with the threat of deadly force if you don’t pay their inflated, undeserved salaries.

Complete MORONS!
Who cares if THOUSANDS upon THOUSANDS OLDER FEMALE TEACHERS NATIONWIDE sexually assault, molest or rape their younger male students almost on a DAILY basis.
By all means we must protect these FEMALE sexual deviates and predators!

Since we can’t call them Cougars, I would like to offer some other suggestions that should be acceptable to the Canyon School District:

The Mary Baileys (might be offensive to fat women)
The Non-Animals (might be offensive to bacteria)
The People (might be offensive to animals)
The Apologists (might be offensive to people who don’t)
The Barking Starfish (he he he)

The rational that is behind this decision is beyond the term stupid. What would the, “Folks,” and the school district approve of Barny the Purple Dinosaur. “Good evening Canyon River, tonight coming on to the field is the Canyon River Purple Dinosaurs, the Barny’s.”
The people of the Canyon River School District need to take a stand on the nincompoops that are supposed to be teaching these kids. The “Folks,” who might take offense to the name Cougar, get a friggin life and get yur nose of the the Tabloids because that is where the name was invented.
It is truly scary that such loonacy( describes an idea that is thought of by a cross-breed between a loon and a doofus loonus ) abound these days.

The Draper school board is populated with a bunch of very stupid and silly people. If they had changed the mascot because it was one used by too many schools, nothing would have been said, but to do so because of the new “meaning” given it is beyond belief. Can’t say that I would trust the education of anyone graduating from the Draper area schools….”trickle down” idiocy is real.

Didn’t women in some Scandinavian country want men to sit down to pee? When I read the headline, the thought of a TV shown I have never watched didn’t enter my mind. Doesn’t ths principal have any better things to do?

See, this is proof that these people have way too much free time.
Make them work instead of worrying about stupidity like this.
Anyone who has time to worry about whether or not someone would be offended by naming their mascot a cougar certainly has nothing of substance to do.
Fire these idiots, and let the kids have their say.
A cougar is a magnificent animal and makes a great mascot!

Nice lesson in real state of democracy in Amerika. Elections aren’t actually deciding anything, you’re just being given the chance to approve the choice thats already been made.
Unless the mascot costume was going to be a midddle aged women in hot pants, why would the board have even gone there?

Some stories you just gotta say Wow.
Political correctness gone wild.
We’re almost out of mascot names.
There is only one group of people that still hasn’t achieved victimhood…One group who is not allowed to be offended.
This school has to call itself the RICH WHITE CONSERVATIVES.

Who’s the pervs… The students who voted for the name of a powerful wild cat, which is also the mascot of a well liked nearby university, or the school district administrators who instead immediately could only imagine the presently popular sexual connotation of the word? I suspect the old saying applies… “If the shoe fits…”

The real point here is that as a society we continue to be overly PC. One could take offense at almost any name. This school board shows how far we have fallen and they should be fired. “Come let me offend you” was an article penned in the early 1990s poking fun at PC…it was written by a woman. The school board would do well to read it.

Does this mean that Penn State won’t be allowed to change their name to the Penn State Sodomists?

My point is that there are bigger problems, usually created by liberals, than what the name of a team is, but they won’t realistically address those issues…like our president stating the jobs issue will be solved if we just turn the whole country into Disneyworld with free unchecked Visas for the world and we can just sell t-shirts to the world for a living.
Mental midgets every one of them.

How could such a NARROW MINDED dolt be selected as a School Principal.

All words have many meanings. If one chooses to identify it by a derogatory meaning, that says a lot about that person.

The CHILDREN selecting the mascot are looking towards the TRADITIONAL meaning, the STRONG meaning, the INNOCENT meaning. It is a shame that a person with obvious social issues is able to unilaterally decide that all people must have the same negative, social thoughts as SHE does.

“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”

Read more: “Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”

A “Charger” is just another term for a woman who has a shopping addiction for which she is unable to actually pay cash for anything… this in turn forces her look for younger men that can afford to pay her credit card bills thus making her a “cougar”. In some parts of the US this is also known as prostitution.

Maybe the students should interpret the “Chargers” mascot as they wish. They can create a mascot of a 40’s something woman waving a handful of charge cards at the other team. Or, version may be the “War Horse” and they could depict the rich lord riding his charger and running down the poor serf’s and slaughtering them. And everyone would be able to thank the school board for making such an excellent decision so as not to offend vibrant older women.

Another example of the PC,BS and other reeducation information being forced upon all americans by the left. Elimination of the DOE is a must and get back to giving our children and country the tools to have a Great Life.

elections should have results that count for something.
– the lesson the school board is teaching the students here, is that we only allow your election to count if you choose what we chose for you, so why bother to vote.

Welcome to the USSR – one party, big brother,paternal, we know better than you Utah.

If people wonder why the public schools in this country are a cesspool, they need only look at this story. American public schools are being run by the dumbest and most incompetent people alive, outside of mental institutions and homeless shelters…

Our local school district is very unique. The name of the School District, the city it started in, and the first high school are all the same Indian word, which makes the high school one of the handful of uniquely named high schools in the U.S. The second high school was also named with an Indian word beginning with the same letter. Again very unique.

The third high school had a contest to name the high school. But the school board made the politically correct decision to ban all Indian words from the competition because they “might be offensive” to Indians. Nobody bothered to ask the local Indian tribes of course, but there you go

Why is Courtney Cox’s face in the article? Does she live in Draper? Is she a Cougar expert? Did she make any salient comments? Is there any connection between her and the article? Oh! She stars in a tv show with the name “cougar” in it. Well that’s really a relevant connection. Seems like they’re pandering to her publicity (no offense to black and white bears).

Love the comments, hate the stupidity that actually generated them. This is absolutely ridiculous, and any school board member that actually voted for this needs to be removed from office because they have lost their sanity. Same for the principal in this case. What ever happened to “…words will never hurt me?” Political correctness is cultural Marxism.

“In popular culture Cougar is a sexually aggressive middle aged woman”
In REAL life a Cougar is an aggressive carnivourus CAT!
We ARE dealing with REAL LIFE, here, aren’t we?
Besides I really don’t think ANY sexually aggressive middle aged woman could possibly be insulted by this.

Great message sent to the kids. Use the democratic process to choose but when the results don’t come back favorable to those in charge. use a BS reason to force your will. Pathetic and what a waste of time. Anyone ever consider the Kids might want to go to BYU or respect that school and that’s why they choose the cougar?

best post… this is what we, as a nation, have to look forward to in nov 2012. teach the kids early how to “make” an election turn out with results you want. shameful what is “taught/learned” in the public schools today. so there will be another article of a female “cougar” teacher that has “shared her personal life” with a few of her male students in awhile, and we will all just shake our heads when she can’t be fired due to union rules. how low we have sunk.

New mascot: The Corner Canyon Equality. The Corner Canyon Equality will be a gender neutral person made up of all colors (except white, white is clearly evil and supresses other colors). The Corner Canyon Equality will wear Air Jordon’s, a kilt and a 99%er T-shirt while carrying different signs each game that support social justice (aka: socialist, communist and eco-Nazi) causes. Now that is a mascot I’m sure this board could get behind.

a name principal Mary Bailey said carries an UGLY connotation that is disrespectful to women.
This is the key word “U G L Y” as in she would never make it as a “Cougar” because of U G L Y, or is she really F U G L Y! Guess that is why she is offended!

“The school board, which consists of six men and one woman, thought the Charger would be more appropriate, which was on the ballot but failed to appeal to students as the cougar had.”

So, this was a vote? The school board presented possible names on the ballot for students to vote, but then they don’t like the outcome, so…..

Why was the mascot name put to a vote? Oh Mary, your methods are so silly. You made the mistake of showing your true intentions when you pulled out the iron fist at the end You could have at least faked the outcome and pretended everyone had voted for The Chargers. You’ll do better next time.

Sounds the principal considers herself to resemble the label of being “cougar” or she wouldn’t be so sensitive about it. Otherwise, it really doesn’t make any sense that someone would be so offended by being named after such a beautiful but fierce animal.

Personally, I kinda like the image of a “sexually aggressive middle-aged woman” but if Ms. Bailey finds that offensive, how about a different four-legged female mascot she can relate to – the D U M B B I T C H.

True, the rest of the world does laugh at us for such silly things. We look like morons to the rest of the world that don’t worry about silly political correctness while they instead concentrate on growing their economies and education systems, you know, important things.

This Principal seems to have some sort of personal problems, if she can’t make a distinction between a school mascot and something in a completely different context that an animal name is sometimes used in. Maybe the school needs to start looking for a more stable, compatible Principal. This whole “sensitivity” thing taken to such an extreme as this makes me feel like barfing.

Mary Bailey, what a worthless, Un-American, politically correct worshiping POS that should have NO business having anything to with educating our children or being near schools. She needs to be fired and never allowed to work in a school or have anything to do with education again! This is an example of a bad American.

Do people just make this stuff up? Americans are the most offended people on the planet. It’s seems like so many people actually go out of their way to look for ways to be offended. Sounds like the principal needs some counseling.

Wow!!! Just goes to show you how messed up our thinking has become. Having a cougar for a mascot is disrespectful to women…yet being a cougar isn’t???? Unbelieveable. Congratulations, we can finally admit it. We have all gone completely insane.

Hey kids! We are gonna pick a mascot! Pick anything off this list. Keep in mind that I think a Charger would be a cool mascot. WHAT!!! You didn’t pick mine! The mascot that you picked (that no one had a problem with when making the ballot) is offensive. Lets use mine.

Nothing looses a kids trust like telling them you can choose and then telling them they can’t have it because it isn’t what you want.

Nothing like political correctness run amok. And I thought Utah had conservative backbone. This is pathetic.

How about Trojans, instead? Carries a nice double entendre that seems to match the School District leadership – fearless warriors, or flimsy cover that provides a false sense of security while in reality you’re being sc****d.

I believe the team should henceforth be known as “The Mighty Fighting MILFS”.

Even in liberal California SF Bay area, my San Lorenzo Valley High School mascot and team name was SLV “Cougars”. Never occurred to anyone to object. Even here in liberal land no one ever thought to get this mindlessly politically correct so as to become indistinguishable mentally from a ‘flat line’ condition.

So she was afraid using cougar as a mascot might bring attention to something she is afraid to talk about. Well, I guess she fails and gets an F as everyone is talking about it now especially everyone in Draper Utah. Good job you twit.

HEY SCHOOL DISTRICT…..YOUR WORTHLESS MINDS ARE IN THE ABC/NBC/CBS GUTTER. GET A LIFE AND STOP INJECTING THE GARBAGE YOU WATCH ON TV INTO YOUR SO CALLED PROFESSIONAL LIFE. THE COUGAR IS A MAGNIFICENT ANIMAL WORTHY AS A FINE MASCOT FOR ANY SCHOOL. THE OTHER DEFINITION IS JUST YOUR GARBAGE, SHOVE IT.

Imagine that!!
This filthy minded, sexually stunted and frustrated imbecilette just TAUGHT those children that a cougar was something dirty.
Those innocent children didn’t know this till that filthy minded public servant taught them that.
Is she a pedophile.

okay – here’s my take on this:
This would be laughable if it were not a glimpse into what these students can expect from their life in The Land Of The Free…
The students (We The People) have voted for something. There was a consensus and a clear winner.
Too bad!
Your handlers (the government) have determined otherwise.
Get used to it – this is your future.

Is it just me, or is this ruling itself a whole lot more offensive? It is the school board members who are apparently unable to think of any word without relating it to negative stereotypes, not the students.

On a side note, as a confirmed “leftie” myself, I don’t think political affiliation has much to do with this stupidity.

Huh?
What has that one animal who displays unsound reasoning who seeks revenge upon society by behaving wontonly employing unsound beliefs while trying their best to seduce men of her junior years got to do with the other animal, that while acting within its natural instincts, behaves with far more moral rectitude?

Said school board is offensive to the people of Utah and America as it is offensive to name the behavior of said contrived trollop to that of a wild beast dispalying a natural majesty. It’s an insult to that animal residing in the woods

Congrats, school board. Another bad thought has been sexualized onto those young minds who are supposedly within your care.

Are we to be deprived of every word in our vocabulary because a boatload of ignorant, neurotic inmates have taken over the asylum? Remember the offense taken in DC when some official used the word “niggardly” — which only means stingy — because it sounds like you-know-what? I was tempted to ask how this Mary Bailey could be so profoundly possessed of ignorance until I remembered she is an educator and thus it’s her job to teach it.

So we should change the name of a big cat just because of a stupid modern euphemism? Don’t these spinless PC cowards know is also caled a puma.
The stupidity and cowardice of humanity never fail to amaze me.

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